I swear I’ve heard this before. “If this thing enters Egypt, the country is going to go to waste. God protect us,”
via The Associated Press: Egyptian lawmakers want to ban fake hymen. (no, I’m not kidding)
HT: Radley Balko
It’s good to see someone in the senate will stand for human rights every once in a while:
The State Department intended to send the favorable report on Mexico’s human rights record to Congress in advance of President Obama’s visit to Guadalajara for a summit of North American leaders this weekend, U.S. officials familiar with the [...]
Also posted in Police State |
Sheriff Joe Arpaio can’t keep drugs out of his own jail. Arpaio is the self proclaimed “Toughest Sheriff in America.” He makes his inmates sleep in tents and wear pink underwear while letting his guards deal drugs to them.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says a guard at the 4th Avenue Jail has been arrested for [...]
Obama’s selection of Drug Warrior Joe Biden left me queasy about the future administration’s drug policy. Apparently I’m not the only one with concerns. Jacob Sullum writes:
The main danger with Obama is that his history of drug use, instead of making him more open to reform, will make him anxious to show he’s tough on [...]
Also posted in Marijuana |
The US must rethink its Latin American foreign policy, beginning with the drug war. Sponsoring a proxy war with drug cartels will only foster anti-American sentiment among the citizenry and the large profits of drug trafficking will continue drive public officials to corruption.
Read this excerpt of the speech given by Paul Armentano at NORML’s 2008 Annual Conference:
Those who favor the continued prohibition of cannabis base their arguments on the false premise that the continued enforcement of said laws “protects our children.” This statement is nonsense. In fact, just the opposite is true.
The Whizzinator is a prostetic penis used in conjunction with a synthetic urine that affords its user some personal privacy when subjected to a UDS, urine drug screen. The company’s officers are being pursued on charges of conspiracy because some people happen to use the things to protect themselves when tested by the federal government
I have a friend that spent four days in jail in 1996 when a nutritional suplement tested positive for heroin. His attorney’s fees totalled nearly $10,000. All charges were dropped. The problem persists:
For decades law enforcement agencies including local police, DEA and U.S. Customs have used what is known as “presumptive field drug-test” kits to [...]
Radley Balko has a great article up on Slate. Before you go pulling the lever for Obama, thinking he’ll bring change to drug policing think again. His selection of Drug Warrior Biden confirmed for me that Obama’s prior commitment to decriminalization was just political pandering to his left-wing base. To win this election Obama/Biden have [...]
The FDA has decided not to ban pediatric OTC cold and cough medicine, even though it has been shown to be ineffective and even dangerous to our children. One of the major objections to the ban is a reasonable one. The FDA recognizes that in the event of a total ban some parents will opt [...]
